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Photography, Imaging, 3D and 3D PrintingFri, 22 Sep 2017 06:41:23 +0000en-UShourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.8.2#CreativeFriday – Design Jones Interviewhttp://blogs.adobe.com/richardcurtis/2017/09/22/creativefriday-design-jones-interview/
Fri, 22 Sep 2017 06:41:23 +0000http://blogs.adobe.com/richardcurtis/?p=5598Continue reading →]]>Hi folks, sorry, I’ve not posted for such a long time, I’ve been tied up with other activities. However, I just wanted to post this little piece, as I had the pleasure of chatting with “The Design Jones” a few weeks ago on my career, photography and Adobe Stock. If you are interested, then you you can hear the interview for yourself here. I hope you like it, if not maybe you like the images that they chose for the piece ;-).

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]]>#CreativeFriday – 2017 Photography Adobe theatre schedulehttp://blogs.adobe.com/richardcurtis/2017/03/10/creativefriday-2017-photography-adobe-theatre-schedule/
Fri, 10 Mar 2017 15:28:49 +0000http://blogs.adobe.com/richardcurtis/?p=5587Continue reading →]]>Adobe is once again extremely excited to be at the 2017 Photography show, running the Adobe Theatre. We’re delighted to have the opportunity to showcase what the modern day Photographer needs to know, covering all aspects of a photographic journey. We’ll share with you how to add value to the image capture within your camera, image editing techniques and best practices at the computer, as well as many options to publish your work to the internet and across your social channels. We believe that armed with your camera, the Adobe Creative Cloud Photography plan and content from these talks, you will be able to take your images to the next level.

Descriptions

Combining Lightroom and Photoshop CC in your retouching workflow

In the past few updates of the Creative Cloud, Lightroom and Photoshop have seen various improvements for photographers. This session, hosted by a re-touching expert, will look in detail at the new tools and explain how to improve your post production/re-touching workflows, to create even more beautiful images.

Making your Photos look amazing with Lightroom CC

In this session you’ll discover ways of correcting common photo issues and ways to enhance your photographs to give them the wow factor.

Mastering the basics of Lightroom CC

This session is perfect for the person this is just starting out with Lightroom, but has had a few months experience. The speaker will cover how to use Lightroom, with a focus on the next steps after just starting out with the program and go more in depth with the Development module, but also cover things to think about when importing, organising and finding your images.

Using Mobile apps to create and publish your work

The Adobe Creative Cloud including the Photography plan includes the Desktop apps, as well as mobile photography apps. In this session, the speaker explores these apps and examines how the photographer might benefit from them in their imaging workflow. The session will also show how to create an Adobe Spark page to publish your work. Adobe Spark is becoming a standard way to show off any work in a beautiful way.

This year we are extremely pleased to welcome by Canon Explorer and one of the world’s leading landscape and travel photographers David Noton to the Adobe Seminar room. David’s talk, the Fundamentals of Post-Production will cover new developments and techniques within the Adobe Photography plan that have supported his imaging processing needs in 2015. This promises to be a not to be missed session and a highlight for Adobe seminar room this year.

Photoshop CC for Photographers

We are now at the 2017 version of Photoshop CC, and there is a lot to catch up on. In this talk and demonstration, you’ll find out Gavin’s favourite Photoshop tools and hidden gems are for creating simple but eye-catching visual effects and how and why he shoots with Photoshop mind. So, If you are looking for something to boost your creativity, or tips and tricks to fire up your photography enthusiasm, then session is defiantly for you.

Contributing to Adobe Stock for Photographers

Today’s stock industry presents options to buyers and creators alike; it offers customers a multitude of images, vectors and videos to illustrate any creative project and the freedom for contributors to establish their style and develop their skills within a lucrative marketplace

Starting out with Lightroom CC

New people are joining the Creative Cloud Photography plan all of the time. But sometimes, things take a little while to make sense, especially when moving from another photo editing applictation. This session will guide you through the very basics and get you started, as well as walking you through editing your first picture with Lightroom.

Using Lightroom Mobile in your workflow

Edit your photos whilst on the go. This session on Lightroom mobile, will show how to edit your RAW or JPG photo’s non-destructively whilst away from the desktop. We will talk about how Lightroom mobile manages photos from Lightroom desktop to the mobile device, and vice versa, and look to optimise your workflow whenever you need it. They say that the best camera is the one that you have with you, and sometimes all you have is your smart phone. So why miss out on the shot, take manual control over your smart phone’s camera and make the photo look amazing there and then from within Lightroom mobile.

For more information on the show itself, including how to get there, directions as well as other things that are happening, please visit the Photography show web site.

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]]>SWPP 2017 Photographic Convention – Adobe Theatre Talk Schedulehttp://blogs.adobe.com/richardcurtis/2017/01/09/swpp-2017-photographic-convention-adobe-theatre-talk-schedule/
Mon, 09 Jan 2017 06:46:44 +0000http://blogs.adobe.com/richardcurtis/?p=5584Continue reading →]]>We are pleased to announce that Adobe will be attending the Societies (SWPP) convention with a Seminar room and free talks. The talks are on a first come first served basis and will be 25 minutes long with 5 minutes of question and answer at the end. We hope that the schedule we have planned will suite all tastes and photographic needs, and are very much looking forward to showing you lots of techniques and creative ideas, as well as meeting everyone at the show. You will be able to find the Adobe seminar room on the ground floor at the entrance to the trade show.

Schedule for The Adobe Seminar room at the SWPP Photographic convention

This session will look at the essence of the Creative Cloud Photography plan and show where both Lightroom CC and Photoshop CC cross over, and can be used to edit your photographs. The take away for this session is to be able to use both applications seamlessly in your workflow for making even more beautiful pictures.

Retouching with Lightroom CC and Lightroom Mobile

We will be exploring how to edit your photographs using the combination of Lightroom Desktop and Lightroom Mobile/Web. This talk will walk you through how to set up and configure Lightroom Mobile, as well as how it can be used as part of your editing workflow both at home and away. The presenter will provide some tips and tricks along the way.

Retouching with Lightroom CC

We will focus on using just Lightroom CC for editing your photographs, offering ideas, tips and tricks for working with your photographs.

Video Editing in Photoshop CC

We all have cameras that are able to create stunning photographs, and many can now record stunning HD /4K quality video too. This session will show how you can import your video clips into Photoshop CC and use your existing Photoshop skills to edit and create a compelling short film.

Moving from Photoshop CC to Premiere Pro CC for video editing

This session will start to explore the move from video editing with Photoshop CC to the more powerful Adobe Premiere Pro CC. However, this will be a beginners session and cover the interface of Premiere Pro and how it works for editing your footage. This session will show how you can import your video clips, start to select the elements of your film and how to use the Timeline. We will also look at how Photoshop CC can be used with this workflow for working on adjusting the basic look of the film.

Photoshop CC for Photographers

This session will focus on Photoshop for editing your Photographs. Due to only 25 minutes for this session and the vast amount of tools and techniques that Photoshop has to offer, each session will be different and a good place to learn more editing techniques.

Telling stories and publishing your work with Creative Cloud

Adobe Spark Page is a new way to create a wonderful online content. Adobe Spark Page will allow you to turn your ideas and photos into engaging visual stories. This session will walk you though creating an Adobe Spark Page project. To get an idea of what can be created, here is one that I prepared earlier (http://bit.ly/EagleHunters)

Make your images look amazing with Lightroom CC

I regularly hear from customers a lot of questions around how best to use Lightroom CC. This session will provide some direction and that will help you make decisions when editing your pictures. This session will build in what you already know about Lightroom, but will look at some common issues, and how to solve the problems by just using Lightroom CC

Getting more from the Creative Cloud Photography plan

Creative Cloud Photography plan contains 2 Desktop products not including Adobe Bridge CC. As well as the desktop apps, the Photography plan also contains mobile apps, online services and a wealth other resources that are available for you to use, including making money from your images by contributing to Adobe Stock. This session will allow you to get much more value your Adobe subscription that you thought was possible.

How to start working with Composite images within Photoshop

One common question that we hear is “How do I learn Photoshop CC”. Mostly we find that people would like to start cutting sections of images out and replacing simple things like skies, adjusting lighting etc. etc. This session will introduce you to the basics of the Photoshop CC, as well as how to perform some common tasks, that are hard to achieve with just Lightroom CC.

N.B. Talks are 25 minutes each with 5 minutes of Q&A at the end of each session

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]]>#CreativeFriday – A practical use of the Difference Blending mode in Photoshophttp://blogs.adobe.com/richardcurtis/2016/11/11/creativefriday-a-practical-use-of-the-difference-blending-mode/
Fri, 11 Nov 2016 08:41:59 +0000http://blogs.adobe.com/richardcurtis/?p=5567Continue reading →]]>One blending mode that I’ve started to use more and more is the Difference blending mode. Some times I need to see visual changes on a change, especially when some precise control is needed.

For example. I am working with a precise curve at the moment and it needs to be adjusted slightly. The process behind the curve changes is a physical print and is extremely sensitive to any tonal changes on the image.

The curve below is opening up the shadow area (described in the upper most right area of the curve) and giving a separation of shadow tones.

The lower portion (lower left hand area of the curve) is controlling the opening of highlight values.

However, the highlights are not as open as I would like, but too much will flatten the image and reduce any contrast.

One option is to guess the change by duplicating the curve layer and turning on/off each curve adjustment and eyeballing the difference, but it’s very hard to be precise (as you can see below).

Or, I can take a quick screen shot of both curves and open them into another document. For this, I’m going to use the File / Place Linked command and add both screen shots of the curves in to a new document.

You can see, that the top layer is dominant and overriding the underlying layer. To see the difference between the two, just change the top most layer to be have a blending mode of ‘Difference’ (marked in Blue below).

(Close up image below)

You can also see the structure of both curves, relative to each other, it’s then easy to make more informed decisions on the shape of the curve (usually this type of adjustment won’t be noticeable (especially on the screen)), however, when printing to paper (especially with alternative processes), small adjustments can be the difference between a good image and an amazing image.

The beauty of using the ‘Place Linked’ command is that when taking screen shots of subsequent curves, the appropriate layer can be updated, by using the re-link graphic on the properties panel of the linked layer

This process can also works for graphics as well, when used within the canvas (as opposed to making a screen shot)

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]]>#CreativeFriday – Adobe Creative Cause and The Prince’s Trusthttp://blogs.adobe.com/richardcurtis/2016/10/21/creativefriday-adobe-creative-cause-and-the-princes-trust/
Fri, 21 Oct 2016 06:04:37 +0000http://blogs.adobe.com/richardcurtis/?p=5547Continue reading →]]>What is the Adobe Creative Cause
Adobe is a passionate supporter of The Prince’s Trust Charity, who are a charity that help transform the lives of thousands of disadvantage young people each year. As an initiative to support this organisation, Adobe has created a “Digital Art Competition”, referred to as “ADOBE CREATIVE CAUSE“, to raise money and awareness to help them continue this empowering and important work.

What is the Competition (active from 20th October – 1st December, join in by following this link)

Bullying, poverty, disability and abuse are just some of the contributing factors that lead to a lack of confidence in a person’s ability to change their future. These are just some of the triggers that stop our young people from developing to their full potential. As part of the competition we want to highlight that this does not have to be the case, and that great organisations such as The Prince’s Trust exist to change and help empower people to believe that they can transform their own lives.

We are therefore looking for digital artist to help visualise the emotional journey many young people make through The Prince’s Trust and this can be anything that you see on their website or maybe a visualisation of your own transformation or empowerment from a difficult time in your life.

To start this visual journey and get you off to an amazing start, we have spoken with Josephine Johns, who’s is relatively new to the design/photographic/compositing world and who’s work really speaks out and defines the visual expression of these young people. You can see an example of Josephine’s work below.

Hi Josephine, thank you for your time in working with me on creating this blog post about your creativity. Would you be able to introduce yourself to the audience please.

My name is Josephine Johns. I’m a photographer and digital artist. I am a mum of four with only my youngest daughter of 11 at home now. I work in a school canteen which is hard manual work and hot too! I’ve had an interesting life, which, at times has been hard. I have always been the square peg but it makes me who I am!

Over the past couple of years your creativity has really blossomed, can we go back to the start and talk about what inspired you to start Photography?

I’ve always enjoyed taking photos, even from when I first started taking photos of my children. Photography lets me look at the world in a different light, giving me the opportunity to be creative.

Since you started Photography, your skills in Photoshop have come on a long way, what inspired you to start working with composites?

I’m rarely able capture the artistic vision that’s in my mind in one photo. Composites give me the freedom to bring in many different elements, which I can then assemble arrange and compose to produce the image exactly as I imagine it.

How did you learn Photoshop, what were your largest hurdles and what would you say to someone who is starting out that is keen to lean the product?

I had already begun using Photoshop with the Photography package. I was lucky enough to win a year’s subscription to the full Creative Cloud package. This gave me access to all the apps, which really inspired me to throw myself in and learn Photoshop. I was helped by my partner, David, and also spent time watching tutorials online, as well as books and magazines. The most important thing is practice. Practice. Practice!

What is your favourite 5 features in Photoshop CC for Creative Cloud?

This is a tough one! There are so many great features. I would say, for the work I do, Blend Modes are high on the list, as I use a lot of texture in my art. The latest selection refining tools and masking features are an absolute necessity for composites. Free Transform and Puppet Warp are great for making my ‘models’ do what I want them to! The Blur Gallery is a really powerful tool and really helps me to build my scenes. I also like the way third-party plugins can be seamlessly added to Photoshop panels; I use Paper Texture Pro and PixelSquid 3D a lot! The same goes for Adobe Stock, the ability to add a low-res asset in the early stages of my work and then licence the full size image later is fab!

What is your favourite innovation in the Creative Cloud

This has to be the way the mobile apps integrate with my Creative Cloud libraries and allow me to send composites I’ve started roughing out in Photoshop Mix straight to Photoshop to finish off!

Have you done anything with stories and used Adobe Spark Page, if so are you able to share some and tell the readers how your approach making stories to show your work off.

Hi yes, this is the first time that I have used Adobe Spark and I really enjoyed working with it. It was so easy to use that at first I thought that I was doing it wrong as it seemed so easy! The instructional tutorial was fab and easy to follow and I think I can safely say there was plenty of templates to choose from that I would most definitely use it again!

What advice would you give someone that is looking to learn more about Photoshop and enter the Creative Cause competition?

If you’re interested in learning Photoshop, there’s a wealth of information on the Adobe channel on YouTube and sites like Phlearn, TipSquirrel, PhotoshopCafe to name just a few. I’ll say it again: Practice. Practice. Practice! There’s no right or wrong way to create an image and you can’t break Photoshop! Just let your ideas flow and everything else will come together.

If you were to pick some of your work that represented the brief of the Creative Cause Competition. Which images would you pick and why?

The journey and transformation that people go through via The Prince’s Trust is truly amazing and after researching the stories on their website I felt deeply emotional about the experiences they went through. I have selected some of my images below which I feel have a strong emotional link to some of these stories:

What does the future hold for Josephine

The future for me is to develop my photography and imaging skills so I can leave my current job and pursue a career in doing something I love; where work ceases to be work!

Josephine, we would like to thank you for your time today and we look forward to the next session which will give our audience a great starting point to create something for this amazing cause.

Solitude : Sometimes we find ourselves in solitude and so this image depicts a veil reinforcing the feeling of Solitude but it is only a thin view meaning that if we open our eyes we can see through and see ahead.
One voice : One Voice amongst many, sometimes there are so many people giving you advice that you find it hard to find the one that can touch you, The red telephone shows that amongst many voices one will reach you and you will understand and find your way.
Reveal : Reveal: Sometimes we just need a glimpse of what lies beyond and this image feels to me that you can sometimes just need a little glimpse of what great things are out there for you.
In the Beginning : This image is uplifting, It makes me feel inspired that from such a little glimmer of light (idea) you can shine and grow.
Tranquillity : This represents my escapism, a place where all is tranquil and calm, a place to be alone and at peace.
Sunset Ride: Dreams can come true and I wanted to illustrate myself riding off into the sunset riding a giraffe. This makes me feel anything is possible with the golden sunset giving you that warm feeling inside and a feeling of contentment.

So, as you can see above, Josephine has a lovely way way of taking the emotion and transforming it into images/composites. So, don’t hesitate, why not give it a go, it’s all for a wonderful cause.

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]]>#CreativeFriday – Re-using Adobe Camera RAW settings for other imageshttp://blogs.adobe.com/richardcurtis/2016/10/07/creativefriday-re-using-adobe-camera-raw-settings/
http://blogs.adobe.com/richardcurtis/2016/10/07/creativefriday-re-using-adobe-camera-raw-settings/#commentsFri, 07 Oct 2016 13:24:23 +0000http://blogs.adobe.com/richardcurtis/?p=5533Continue reading →]]>Recently, I have had the need to re-use camera RAW settings and take them from one image to another, via Camera RAW.

Take this set of adjustments that I have made to an image, which I took in India a couple of years ago

The processing used allows me to create a consist look / feel and tone to any image. I’m always trying to find a way to link images together to tell the wider story.

The settings in Camera RAW cross almost every tab, from shadow/highlight recovery, split tone etc, and re-entering this each time is time consuming and can create errors in the processing.

Within ACR (Adobe Camera RAW) there is an option to save the current settings

Once “save setting” has been selected the following screen will be displayed

Here individual elements can be selected and turned on/off. Once the required items have been selected, clicking Save will save the .XMP file to the local disk (Personally, I’ll save this to my Creative Cloud folder so I can use it anywhere that I am editing).

When editing the next image that will use these settings, I’ll just need to add the Camera RAW filter (at which ever point in your process from the Filter menu), then load the XMP saved file into ACR and the settings will be adjusted as appropriate.

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Fri, 09 Sep 2016 15:01:55 +0000http://blogs.adobe.com/richardcurtis/?p=5511Continue reading →]]>Masks in Photoshop CC are extremely handy, and will give you lots of control when applying controlled adjustments to your images. This post is set to address and give an example of how to re-use a mask within another mask.

Let us take this image. To get the “pop” in the image, I would like the monk’s robe on the right hand side to have the same colour and vibrancy/saturation as the monk on the left.

To do this, there are a few steps that we can make, this will also show off a way to re-use a masks selection.

First things are to make a selection of the monks robe on the right hand side. For this, I’ve just used the Quick selection brush.

As soon as this is complete, a new Layer Adjustment to adjust the Brightness/Contrast is added. This adjustment will bring the robes to the same luminosity as the monk’s robe on the left.

Now that the robe’s are up to the same luminance, we can look to increase the Vibrancy/Saturation and make sure they are at the same level, to give the maximum pop in the image. The monk’s robe on the left has been selected with the Quick selection brush.

At this point, we can create an Adjustment layer for this robe and increase the Vibrancy/Saturation.

You can see that the adjustment only affects the robe on the left. We now need to make this reflect in the robe on the right as well.

Rather than re-selecting the robe on the right, we might as well re-use the existing mask from the previous adjustment, then blend this into this adjustment. To do this, hold the CMD (Mac)/ CTRL (Pc) down and click on the mask of the layer that you would like to use, then hold down SHIFT+CMD(Mac)/CTRL(PC) down and click on the next mask (in this case, first click the right robe, then use Shift click the left robe). This will in effect create a selection from the mask and append a selection of the next mask to it.

At this point, you will see both selections appear on the image.

Because this new selection is newer than the one that we already have for the Vibrancy/Saturation Adjustment, which was copied last, this selection can be removed.

To do this, make sure the correct layer is selected (you can do this whilst the selection is active), then right click on the mask and choose “Delete Layer Mask” (this will remove the mask). Then click new layer mask (marked in red below)

Now the new mask will have the selection for the monk on the left, as well as the same selection used for the Monk on the right, but will match the mask which is being used for the Brightness and Contrast adjustment layer. Of course, the additional benefit is that both the vibrancy/saturation and the Brightness and contrast.

You can see that the red robes look great and really give the image “pop” against the light stone walls and grey steps.

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]]>#CreativeFriday – Adobe UK’s Photography Jamhttp://blogs.adobe.com/richardcurtis/2016/08/19/creativefriday-adobe-uks-photography-jam/
Fri, 19 Aug 2016 13:13:50 +0000http://blogs.adobe.com/richardcurtis/?p=5505Continue reading →]]>Last month on a sunny evening in Shoreditch, London, Adobe UK held it’s first Photography JAM. The idea of the event was to invite 10 local Photographers to take part in a challenge, as well as present and inspire to a live audience, the new and improved tools in Photoshop and Lightroom as part of the Creative Cloud Photography plan. We also engaged some local talent and had talks from a range of luminary speakers including photographer and director Sophie Ebrard, Photoshop expert Gavin Hoey, and fine art, fashion and conceptual artist Bella Kotak, all of whom shared their tips and tricks on how to make your photographs even better. To catch all the content on demand, head over to our YouTube channel.

While all the action unfolded, the contested challenge was taking place behind the scenes. We the 10 photographers to take to the streets of Shoreditch and capture shots that linked back to the following quote:

“What makes photography a strange invention is that it’s primary raw materials are light and time”

They then had just two hours to create a unique photo story using Adobe Spark.

After a nerve-wracking afternoon, London-based graphic designer Michael Goldrei and South African food photographer Brett Field were chosen as the finalists.

Michael’s work, entitled The Dark Green Line, looked at the painted green strip which leads from Old Street station to Moorfields Eye Hospital. Michael followed the line from the tube station to Moorfields, photographing both patients and staff along the way, asking them for their experiences of darkness and light and how changes to their sight has influenced the way they see the world.

You can check out Michael’s full entry here and see more of his work on his website.

Unfortunately, there could only be one winner and it was Brett Field took the crown. We were lucky enough to catch up with Brett to discuss his work, future plans and what winning the Photography Jam means to him.

Tell us about your submission – what was the inspiration behind it?

The manipulation of time and light. Time and light were the key aspects to the brief so I set out to distort reality by manipulating them. Using a glass prism held in front of my lens, I was able to refract and reflect images and/or light back into the lens and my shot.

This essentially placed components of reality into the final image that were not within the original frame resulting in a narrative of distorted reality. Having multiple images from the same moment in time in the same frame was a distortion of light and time.How did it feel to win the Photography Jam event?

The atmosphere was amazing. The contestant comradery and audience feedback was even better. To win such a unique competition when up against such an extraordinary array of talent was a career highlight.What are your career plans for the near future?

I am currently writing a food photography book due for release early 2017. I would also love to host an exhibition of my Fine Art photography.

Seeing my work printed and displayed vulnerably for anyone to see is what photography is all about. Exhibitions are the perfect forum to achieve this.

We look forward to hosting more events like this, so please keep an ear to the ground and maybe you can be part of the next exciting series.

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]]>#CreativeFriday – Upload and Edit your RAW images direct to Lightroom mobile (iOS)http://blogs.adobe.com/richardcurtis/2016/08/05/creativefriday-upload-your-raw-images-direct-to-lightroom-mobile-ios/
http://blogs.adobe.com/richardcurtis/2016/08/05/creativefriday-upload-your-raw-images-direct-to-lightroom-mobile-ios/#commentsFri, 05 Aug 2016 08:24:48 +0000http://blogs.adobe.com/richardcurtis/?p=5481Continue reading →]]>We have been hearing from photographers, especially those out in the field when travelling, that it would be great to have the ability to take the SD card from the camera and edit RAW files, on the go with Lightroom mobile, without having to go back to the studio.

This remote workflow if finally here for iOS, and it’s great !

You will need to get a card reader, like the SD card reader to ightening adapter shown below.

All you need to do is to put the SD card into the adapter and plug into the iOS device. Upon doing so, iOS will recognise the card exists, and will ask if you would like to import images to the Camera Roll.

RAW Images on your card are displayed on the import screen. Images marked in Green already exist, the ones in Blue have been selected for import on this occasion and those images without any ticks are not imported.

Once “Import” is clicked, Import All or just selected can be chosen.

Once the import has completed, the import will ask if you would like to keep or remove the images on the memory card. I personally keep the images, then, depending where I am, back up the images to a separate drive using Lightroom desktop on my computer (I always keep an additional back up at this point, then I’ll remove the images from my card).

In Lightroom mobile on the iOS device, I would typically create a new collection (which will sync to Lightroom desktop automatically, most likely when I next have a WiFi connection).

Once the collection has been created, clicking the … (three dots) by the side of it, will allow you to “Add Photos”.

Add Photos will take you to the camera roll, where the RAW images will be waiting for you. To import them, just tap on each one (each image will have a blue edge to show it’s been selected), then choose import.

Lightroom Mobile will import them into it’s database and then show them in the collection. Once imported, I tend to remove the images from the Camera Roll (for space reasons).

To edit the RAW image in Lightroom mobile, just select the image as you normally would do.

As soon as the edit has been completed, and you move to the next photo, the RAW file and any adjustments will be synced to Lightroom desktop.

Update

To determine where the images from Lightroom mobile are transferred to on your desktop, you can configure a folder on your destination catalog, under the Lightroom preferences / Lightroom mobile.

Correct the Lens Profiles

The correction of lens profiles are also part of this update, and work the same way as on the desktop version of Lightroom. To turn these corrections on, you need to make sure it’s configured. Within Lightroom Mobile you can get to the app preferences by clicking the LR banner on the upper left hand corner.

This will open the preferences panel, where you need to scroll down, then select import.

Under import, you can then turn on the Lens Profile for RAW files.

Ability to urn on/off the profile corrections on each image, is available from the “Edit” option, then selecting the Lens Profile icon in the adjustments list.

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]]>http://blogs.adobe.com/richardcurtis/2016/08/05/creativefriday-upload-your-raw-images-direct-to-lightroom-mobile-ios/feed/6#CreativeFriday – Face Aware Liquify – Photoshop 2015.5http://blogs.adobe.com/richardcurtis/2016/07/15/creativefriday-face-aware-liquify-photoshop-2015-5/
http://blogs.adobe.com/richardcurtis/2016/07/15/creativefriday-face-aware-liquify-photoshop-2015-5/#commentsFri, 15 Jul 2016 12:16:49 +0000http://blogs.adobe.com/richardcurtis/?p=5470Continue reading →]]>You may have seen the great new Face Aware Liquify feature in the last update to Photoshop CC. It’s a wonderful tool, and designed to help with your image manipulation around the face and remove the complexities that existed around working with faces previsouly.

Let’s take this image. I met this father and son in Bhutan a few years ago and I thought would make a great image. The only issue is that, whilst taking the shot, the son is looking away from the camera.

The second and last shot that I have is the following

On this occasion, they are both looking at the camera, but not smiling.

This is a great real world usecase for the new Face Aware liquify in Photoshop CC 2015.5. Face Aware Liquify first made an appearance in the mobile application Photoshop Fix.

The Face Aware liquify is available under the Filter / Liquify menu option (i’m using this on a Smart Object, which gives me a way to apply the effect, then to change it if required, or to fine tune, all non destructively of course).

Once inside the Liquify tool, with the Face selected. Photoshop will automatically recognise all faces, and intelligently search and find the eyes, nose, mouth and face edges, then allow you to re-configure using the sliders on the right hand side.

Just a quick movement on the smile tool, either directly on the picture, or by using the slides on the right hand side panel, will correct this image and put a slight smile on the both people.

It’s a very simple process and takes a couple of minutes. It’s worth an explore to see what else is achievable, you might event want to create something like the following.